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hows the crafting
Gallaid
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hows the crafting in lotr?? can every one do it.
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It is very simple. You go to a crafting station for your tradeskill (for example, a forge for refining metal), equip the correct tool, enter how many items to make and press a button.
The tricky part is getting the materials to make the item, and getting the correct skill sets. You get three total harvesting and crafting types, and they come pre-packaged, with a fairly limited range of combinations. For example, one of my characters can harvest metal, make jewelry and cook. I have to buy the food raw materials...I cannot harvest them. The three came from a single decision of crafter type.
You will also have to purchase some sub-combines from others, such as a leather lining for metal armor.
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Bladezz (The Guild)
Armourer:
1. Metalsmith ~Creates heavy armor an tools
2. Prospector ~Gathers metals and gemstones
3. Tailor ~Creates light and medium armor
Armsman:
1. Prospector ~Gathers metals and gemstones
2. Weaponsmith ~Creates metal weapons
3. Woodworker ~Creates wooden weapons/weapons with wood handles
Explorer:
1. Forester ~Gathers wood and tans hide
2. Prospector ~Gathers metals and gemstones
3. Tailor ~Creates light and medium armor
Historian:
1. Farmer ~Grows ingredients for cook and pipeweed
2. Scholar ~Researches rare items to produce scrolls, potions and dye.
3. Weaponsmith ~Creates metal weapons
Tinker:
1. Cook ~produces food
2. Jeweller ~creates jewellery
3. Prospector ~Gathers metals and gemstones
Woodsman:
1. Farmer ~Grows ingredients for cook and pipeweed
2. Forrester ~Gathers wood and tans hide
3. Woodworker ~Creates wooden weapons/weapons with wood handles
Yeoman:
1. Cook ~produces food
2. Farmer ~Grows ingredients for cook and pipeweed
3. Tailor ~Creates light and medium armor
As you can see, you can cover all the professions with your 5 available character slots. I have five alts with no main as I put it. Three of the alts would be more focussed upon than the other two. Crafting was the initial logic with the alts, being able to feed the various professions simplified things. My son also has an account and I just created a mule on his account to keep from having to mail things from one alt to another. Our computers are six feet apart so I start up the mule on his computer and roll my chair back and forth between the two trading items. I can't imagine the cost if I had to mail everything. Scholar, Metalsmith (armor) and Jeweller professions seem to work well and are quite lucrative. I havn't done much farming, weaponsmithing, cooking, tailoring or woodworking....just enough to feed the profs I focus on. Prospecting is a constant...sometimes camp an area, other times I feel adventurous and go exploring for new resources.
Overall I enjoy the crafting. Scholar can sometimes feel like a grind when hunting for resources. Additionally I have heard some say that some of the professions are "broke." I personally havn't run into this. Perhaps the professions I chose. Item storage is a big problem. The bank storage is small and my 5 bags fill up quickly when getting resources and making parts for larger items. I hear that housing is eventually coming, perhaps this will help wth storage. Anyway....hope this helps.
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My Armorsmith is the fun one I think. The devs have said that the best items in the game will come from the crafters. As you level up you gain more recipes for armor. These pre determined recipes are "OK" armor I guess. The recipes for good pieces come from loot drops and are one use only. LotRO uses item bind to keep the need for new items a constant. Meaning once you equip an item it can't be used by another player, only sold to a vendor or destroyed. There is no permanent decay on items either. This is a bad thing IMO. Items like tools (used for making other items and collecting resources Ex: Mining pick, Blacksmithing hammer....etc) will never have a large market. Once you have a good one, you'll never need to purchase another. The armor pieces sell pretty good so long as you price them well.
Just about every time I have been in the auction house in Bree it has been packed. So people are certainly buying stuff.
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And as there are many people buying and selling cratable items of all kinds (jewelry, weapons, armor of all classes, accessoires) I guess it is profitable for other people too.
Unfortunately, gathering raw materials things and selling them straight away is the most profitable thing you can do. Which will eventually be corrected I guess. Or not, whatever, but I can honestly say that crafting is fun and is earning you money...
Meridion
My Armorsmith is the fun one I think. The devs have said that the best items in the game will come from the crafters. As you level up you gain more recipes for armor. These pre determined recipes are "OK" armor I guess. The recipes for good pieces come from loot drops and are one use only. LotRO uses item bind to keep the need for new items a constant. Meaning once you equip an item it can't be used by another player, only sold to a vendor or destroyed. There is no permanent decay on items either. This is a bad thing IMO. Items like tools (used for making other items and collecting resources Ex: Mining pick, Blacksmithing hammer....etc) will never have a large market. Once you have a good one, you'll never need to purchase another. The armor pieces sell pretty good so long as you price them well.
Just about every time I have been in the auction house in Bree it has been packed. So people are certainly buying stuff.
As an armourer, all of the armor i craft, do not bind. The only things i've seen bind, are quest rewards, armor/weapon drops from monsters, and crafted tools. The base recipes are good armor if you end up making a critical success. And for the tools, there are a few different "levels" for tools, you have bronze, then iron (need to be level 15 to use), steel (need to be level 25 to use), dwarf-steel (need to be level 35 to use), and 1 more set (i don't remember the name, but you need to be level 45 to use). And each higher set gives more of a bonus, higher crit% or reduction in gathering time, depending on the tool.
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Wait a minute! What am I doing.....no, no, no....decay and binding. Need to get it out of middle earth so I can make and sell more. : )
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